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The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to. plus the news from anywhere on earth introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
6.50
Travel news, What's on, and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.0 News and more of Today including at 7.25 Sportsdesk; at 7.35' Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Travel news
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35* Today's Papers
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
Regional VHF: see last column

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Editor:
Alastair Osborne
Editor:
Marshall Stewart

Aided by Benny Green. Lance Percival , Esther Rantzen. Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round and meets surprise guests for whom this week promises to be special. Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Contributors

Unknown:
Benny Green.
Unknown:
Lance Percival
Unknown:
Esther Rantzen.
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Michael Ember

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Today we look into one of the problems of hand-rearing wildlife orphans; go tracking down in the woods; put To Let signs on some nest boxes: and listen to your favourite sounds. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison
Producer:
Dilys Breese

Arrangements for Murder by L. P. DAVIES
Read by Nigel Stock
' When he saw me looking, he dodged back into the entry ... I did see him ... I didn'imagine it....'
(Nigel Stock broadcasts by permission of Bristol Old Vie)

Contributors

Unknown:
L. P. Davies
Read By:
Nigel Stock

Presenter George Luce Work and Money
Industrial Injuries: LAURIE SAPPER explains who is entitled to compensation, to what extent - and how to claim.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER

Contributors

Presenter:
George Luce

Margharita Laski, writer and broadcaster, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island.

12.55 (medium wave only) Weather, programme news

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Margharita Laski

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Stotkpiler: an investment game for schools - a progress report.
Reading your letters.
Christmas: presents to make on a budget.
The Passing Star by JEAN STUBBS : the story of the great Italian actress Eleanora Duse abridged by MYRA BEATON read by Sheila Mitchell
(First of 14 instaiments. Serial music: Miracle in the Gorbals by Sir Arthur Bliss )
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Jean Stubbs
Unknown:
Eleanora Duse
Abridged By:
Myra Beaton
Read By:
Sheila Mitchell
Unknown:
Sir Arthur Bliss
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud
Peter Jones. Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones.
Unknown:
Andree Melly
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Bob Oliver Rogers

Elsie and Doris Waters look back on an eventful and happy life and recall their many friends including, this week: ALBERT WHELAN
FLANAGAN AND
ALLEN RONNIE BARKER , ROBB WILTON
NELLIE WALLACE , SANDY POWELL RAWICZ AND LANDAUER Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON First of six programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Doris Waters
Unknown:
Albert Whelan
Unknown:
Allen Ronnie Barker
Unknown:
Robb Wilton
Unknown:
Nellie Wallace
Unknown:
Sandy Powell
Unknown:
Landauer Producer
Unknown:
Alastair Scott Johnston

Futility by WILLIAM GERRAHDIE adapted for radio by OLIVIA MANNING with Geoffrey Beevers as Andrei Andreiech William Eedle as Nikolai Vasilievich and Diana Olsson as Fanny Ivanovna
A classic study of unrequited love, part set against the back-cloth of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
(Rptd: next Sunday afternoon) (Geoffrey Beevers is in ' Dandy Dick ' at the Garrick, London) William Gerhardie , the lost novelist: page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
William Gerrahdie
Unknown:
Olivia Manning
Unknown:
Geoffrey Beevers
Unknown:
Andrei Andreiech
Unknown:
William Eedle
Unknown:
Nikolai Vasilievich
Unknown:
Diana Olsson
Unknown:
Fanny Ivanovna
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Unknown:
Geoffrey Beevers
Unknown:
Dandy Dick
Unknown:
William Gerhardie
Nina:
Emily Richard
Sonia:
Bonnie Hurren
Vera:
Julie Hallam
Eisenstein:
Nigel Graham
Magda Nikolaevna:
Hilda Schroder
Zina:
Helen Worth
Admiral:
Godfrey Kenton
Baron Wunderhausen:
David Timson
Uncle Kostia:
Wilfrid Carter
General Bologoevski:
Peter Williams
US Naval Officer:
Terry Scully
Prince Kniaz:
Brian Haines

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